WELCOME TO
THE LIE-FREE ZONE
No
matter what the government says, we all matter, and that includes YOU!
YOU
can make a difference, but only if WE stick together in demanding that our federal government become a lie-free zone.
NO MORE LIES!!
THE
YOU COULD BE THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VICTORY AND DEFEAT!!
An attorney in
THE
BIG LIE: The Federal government has been
telling people that they must file returns and pay income taxes on their wages,
salaries and fees they gave up their labor, time and a large part of their
lives to obtain, but those earnings are Constitutionally EXEMPT from the income
tax. AND THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS IT!!
TRILLIONS
OF DOLLARS HAVE BEEN STOLEN FROM HOUSEHOLDS AND FAMILIES: Money that you earned, paid for with your labor and industry and that you have a Constitutional right
to keep and use for your family, your children and your community.
THE
TRUTH: The income tax law, although it
is carefully written to APPEAR otherwise, does not actually tax your wages, salaries and fees that you earn
yourself because the Constitution does not allow the federal government to tax
those earnings.
The
Sixteenth Amendment DID NOT authorize the federal
government to tax your PERSONALLY earned wages, but only that part of your
wages that is PROFIT, or GAIN above and beyond what you gave up in order
to receive them. Can you say
what part of your wages are above and beyond your
personal investment in earning them?
Neither
can the government. So it LIES to you by
saying in PUBLICATIONS, like its Form 1040 Instructions, (WHICH ARE NOT LAW)
that you must report and pay taxes on ALL of your wages . . . even that part
that is not profit.
The
Supreme Court has, over and over, told the government that it cannot impose an
income tax on anything but the profits and gains. Although the law does not tax your wages, the
government PUBLICATIONS claim that the "basis" or "cost"
you give up to receive your wages is worthless, ZERO!
THE
LIGHT OF TRUTH: Tom Cryer, a lawyer in
He has challenged to IRS and the
federal government to tell the truth and to stop taxing personal earnings.
THE
GOVERNMENT'S ATTEMPT TO DOUSE THE LIGHT: The IRS and the federal government is now
trying to shut Tom up, to lock him away. For the last two years the IRS has been conducting a smear campaign,
tracking down Tom's clients and telling them that Tom is a tax cheat and anyone
getting too close may get caught up in the "investigation". This smear campaign has destroyed Tom's
practice and has ground him down financially,
Now, that Tom is financially crippled, the IRS has
decided he is weak enough to finish off. They've accused him of tax evasion, even though they had to
intentionally avoid the facts to do so [see the story]. But the frightening thing about this is that
Tom does not have the resources to fight, HE NEEDS HELP and he needs a lot of
it and HE NEEDS IT FAST! Trial is set
for April, 2007, and a lot has to be done between now and then.
TOM'S
FIGHTING BACK WITH THE TRUTH:
The government wants to put Tom on
trial, but Tom has turned the tables. For the first time someone has finally put the big lie on trial.
Tom believes that We the People are the dog and the government is the tail, not the other way
around. We are entitled to be told the
truth up front, to have our laws clearly and plainly stated, not hidden in
omissions, vague references and tons of obtuse verbiage.
He also believes that the government
must be required to remain within the limits We the
People placed on it, not only for taxes, but for intruding on and regulating
virtually every aspect of life. The big
lie, the theft of trillions of your hard-earned wages, has enabled the
government to outgrow its intended role and to invade your state, your
community and your home.
By stopping the theft of your money we
are also reducing the ability of the government to interfere in our personal
lives, a zone that is and has always been "off limits" to the federal
government. Read your Constitution and you will see that the federal role does not include ANY
authority to regulate or tax any citizen directly and that WE expressly
reserved the right to rule and govern ourselves as States, not as mere
political subdivisions.
The Constitution does not allow the government to
run your lives, but the money it is stealing from millions of Americans is the
fuel for its overreaching and kibitzing. Take the money back and we and our states and communities can again be
free. That is what Tom is fighting for,
our FREEDOM from rule by a DISTANT RULER, just as we fought to free ourselves
of a distant
WILL YOU HELP
HIM WIN?
BUT WHAT ABOUT OUR STREETS,
None of these government services will
be interrupted or threatened by holding the federal government to the
truth. These are all functions of STATE
and LOCAL governments, governments in which we have a say, where we can
actually talk to our state legislators and city councilmen.
The States receive SOME of our money
back from the federal government for streets and schools, but ALWAYS with
STRINGS ATTACHED. These strings mean
YOUR MONEY is being used to make the States FEDERAL PUPPETS—FEDERAL
COLONIES. The State governments are
supposed to be OUR PUPPETS! They are
supposed to get their money from us and answer to us for it, not some outside
authority.
LET US DECIDE what laws we
want, what services we want and how we are going to pay for those
services. GIVE US THE STRINGS to our
State governments back! AFTER ALL, IT IS
OUR MONEY PAYING FOR THOSE STRINGS!
Imagine what your state and community
could do if you sent only half of what the federal government has been stealing
from you directly to your state and community coffers. That is far more than they are able to beg
back, now. You could have better streets
and better schools FOR HALF the burden. Not only that, but they will be built where you want them and run the
way you choose to run them, not according to the dictates of some bureaucrat in
Washington writing out thousands of conditions to attach to your money your
State is begging the federal government to return.
The other half of YOUR money the
federal government has been stealing would go to YOU and YOUR family, to be
spent in YOUR state and city, to create jobs and prosperity for YOUR community,
not to
Imagine how much better and faster the wagon would
go if some of those riding had to get out, lightening the load, and then
actually help us pull!
THIS STRUGGLE
IS NOT JUST ABOUT TAXES—IT IS ABOUT FREEDOM!!
TOM IS RISKING EVERYTHING—WILL YOU RISK A FEW
DOLLARS TO HELP?
The government has ground Tom down and
into financial ruin. He has used up all
of his resources in staying the fight and has fewer "bullets" to
fight with than our troops defending the siege of
THE FIGHT FOR
FREEDOM!
THE FIGHT TO
MAKE THE
Tom Cryer has devoted his life and practice to
helping people. He left the big firm
road over thirty years ago and opened a storefront solo practice because he did
not become a lawyer to run up billable hours and stack up money. He wanted to solve people's problems and make
the system work as it was intended. He
is not a fat cat lawyer and deals with the same problems we all do every
day. Now, he's put his freedom and
future on the line for all of us.
The government has destroyed Tom Cryer's practice in
order to impair his ability to fight this battle and he needs your help. If you are tired of being afraid of your own
government and can help, please send whatever you can to the Tom Cryer Defense
Fund and then e-mail this page to everyone you know.
Make checks payable to "C. L. Mitchell"
with "Cryer Defense" on the memo line and mail to:
C.
L. Mitchell Cryer
Defense Fund
Contributors
will NOT be disclosed to ANYONE, especially the government. This is not a political campaign, so there
are no reporting requirements.
God bless you and God bless
the
Attorney Challenges Income
Tax Law
Constitutional History in
the Making
Longtime
The story began over a decade ago when a friend told
Cryer that the income tax was a sham. Cryer did not believe a word of it and thought his friend had gone off
the deep end. Learning that his friend
had decided to stop filing tax returns, Cryer determined to research the
matter, show his friend where he was wrong, and keep him from getting in trouble
with the IRS. That is how a two-year
research project began, but it did not turn out the way Cryer expected. Sporting a wry grin, Cryer said "That
just goes to show you that no good deed goes unpunished."
His research not only included the tax laws
themselves, but went past the first income tax in 1861 to the drafting of the
Constitution and included reading hundreds of cases, Congressional archives and
tax laws from 1913 to present. Cryer
learned that although his friend had only a piece of the picture, he was
right. "The Tax Code and its
regulations are carefully and," he adds, "ingeniously crafted to
deceive," said Cryer. He explains
that the answer is not in what the laws say, but rather in what they do not
say, and those provisions that are revealing are either hidden within tons of
verbiage or behind double and triple negatives. And, more importantly, he says, he knows why.
So Cryer decided he would also stop filing returns
and would challenge the IRS if and when it came to call. Cryer said "Once you've taken an oath to
uphold the Constitution and the law, obeying the law is only half the job. You also have to be willing to fight for
it. I've not only sworn to fight for the
Constitution as an attorney, as a former officer in the Army
In 2001 they came, demanding information and
returns. Cryer advised them that if they
could show him any law making him liable or making his revenues taxable he
would file any tax returns required by the law.
Instead, the IRS began to pelt Cryer with a series
of summonses, gathering up all banking records. It even subpoenaed Cryer's secretary into the office for
interrogation. But Cryer did not
budge. Frustrated, the IRS called in
their criminal investigations division, CID, and Cryer told them the same
thing, "Show me the law that makes me liable or my revenue taxable and I
will file."
CID began the summons pelting all over again, but
Cryer filed a petition to quash the summonses, which even included summonsing
his college and law school records from almost forty years ago. "I suppose they thought the records
would show I was some kind of kook or an idiot, but all they would have found
is that I graduated from college in only three years and that I graduated from
So, CID called in the Justice Department (DOJ) and
the sabers began to rattle. Cryer met
with the Assistant U. S. Attorney and an official of the IRS and reminded them
that all they need do is show him the law. They could not show him any law, either.
"The CID and DOJ both responded only with 'your
position is frivolous.' I had never
stated a position, so how could they know whether it was frivolous?" Cryer
said, "Imagine my sending you a bill for $1,000 and when you call me and
ask what the bill was for I simply said, 'that position is frivolous, just
write the check and send it in.' What would you say? Would you write the check?"
"After that they circled for awhile, apparently
not sure what to do with or to me," he continues, "but when I went
public with a book I'm writing, LIBERTY LOST, A Treasure Map to Buried Freedom,
about how the federal government has escaped its constitutional limits and how
to put it back, that broke the impasse. Within two months they accused me of tax evasion. Do I look like Al Capone? Well, I am a bit overweight and he was kind
of chubby, too."
The two count indictment accuses Cryer of concealing
income in a trust in 2000 and 2001, keeping himself "below the
radar." But in 2001 he was not only
on the radar, he was in the cross-hairs. Cryer, whose wife, Carolyn, was severely disabled, was worried that if
anything happened to him Carolyn's son would have her destitute before the
grass grew over his grave. He set up the
trust in 1993 and opened brokerage accounts in hopes of parlaying the seed
money he could muster up into a fund to provide for her and safeguard the money. Carolyn died in 1999, but he continued to
trade in the accounts.
"They subpoenaed every record on me you could
imagine, they even got into my dry cleaner's account, but they did not subpoena
the brokerage account records. They did
not want the facts, just an indictment. If they had they would have known that the trust not only had no income
for those two years, it lost money both years, but they did not want to know
the truth because that would prevent them from accusing me." he said.
Cryer says that it has already been an eye-opening
experience for him, "It's been revealing. I've had agents tell me the law did not apply to them, so I suppose they
think they are above the law. Another,
challenged with having failed to follow IRS procedures explained that the
procedures are binding on us (the peasants?), but that the IRS does not have to
follow its own procedures unless it wants to. After effecting a legal stay on the CID summonses, a CID investigator
called the banks he had summonsed and when they pointed out that they were
stayed and not allowed to release records until the court ruled, he demanded
they send him the records anyway, law or no law. After I made full disclosure of all records,
saying show me where any of this is taxed, they sent agents out to 'visit' with
my clients, and you can imagine what effect that has had on my practice. But the ride is going to get a lot bumpier
from here on. I'm threatening a lot of
rice bowls. Someone may actually have to
Well, now the worm has turned. Cryer filed a motion to dismiss both counts
against him, showing that the law, as it is written, does not make him liable
nor tax his revenue from his law practice. The motion takes another bold step, however, revealing that the income
tax, as applied to wages, salaries and fees personally earned, is
unconstitutional, citing four separate grounds for the unconstitutionality of
the law as to almost every citizen's
According to Cryer, the law, which is carefully
drawn to stay inside the Constitution, does not actually tax personal earnings,
but the IRS publications, no more law than Time Magazine, say it does and by
collecting taxes on personal earnings it has violated several fundamental
constitutional restrictions. He says
that nearly a trillion dollars is siphoned, illegally, away from families and
households every year, although their wages and salaries, including bonuses,
are exempt from taxation under the Constitution. "I wish there were some way I could have
taken this case on a 1/3 contingency," he joked.
Due to the adverse publicity and clients' fear of
being targeted if they get too close to a target, Cryer says his practice has
suffered immensely, placing him in a severe financial strain. "Getting the government off everyone's
back and out of their pockets is going to be expensive and, frankly, I don't
have the means," Cryer said, "but somehow I am going to finish
this. I am totally convinced that this
is why I am here on this Earth, this is why I am a lawyer, and
BUT HE CAN’T DO IT ALONE
WE ALL NEED TO HELP HIM WIN FOR ALL OF US
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